On the Goals of Neutrino Astronomy

TL;DR

This paper explores the objectives, current capabilities, and challenges of neutrino astronomy by analyzing key sources like the Sun, supernovae, and remnants, highlighting its potential to reveal astrophysical phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the goals, current understanding, and unresolved issues in neutrino astronomy across major astrophysical sources.

Findings

Current neutrino detection techniques for the Sun and supernovae

Expected advancements in neutrino astronomy capabilities

Identification of key challenges in interpreting neutrino data

Abstract

What do we mean by neutrino astronomy? Which information is it able to provide us and which is its potential? To address these questions, we discuss three among the most relevant sources of neutrinos: the Sun; the core collapse supernovae; the supernova remnants. For each of these astronomical objects, we describe the state of the art, we present the expectations and we outline the most actual problems from the point of view of neutrino astronomy.